>>52950263Bulbapedia is terrified of becoming like Serebii, which constantly spreads misinformation in the pursuit of getting the information out first.
But they go too far in the other direction and refuse to make any definitive statements, even for the most obvious shit.
If the reference hasn't been explicitly spelled out by the developers, the best you can hope for is a "may be inspired by" or "appears to be based on".
